Stephen Palumbi: Following the Mercury Trail

April 2010 – Stanford's Stephen Palumbi speaks in the Galapagos as part of TED's Mission Blue Voyage to protect the ocean. He discusses the tight and surprising link between the ocean's health and our own. He shows how toxins at the bottom of the ocean food chain find their way into our bodies, with a shocking story of toxic contamination from a Japanese fish market. His work points a way forward for saving the oceans' health – and humanity's.